Bøger af Charles Hartshorne

This collection of metaphysician Charles Hartshorne's writings provides an introduction to his contribution to contemporary philosophy. Central to his outlook are interpretations of such notions as God, freedom, chance, creativity and the social character of experience.

In the three decades since it was first published, Charles Hartshorne''s Beyond Humanism has come to be regarded as a classic in the study of humanism and nature. The volume includes: Part One: HUMANISM AND HUMAN NEEDS-God or Nature-Humanism as Disintegration-Dewey''s Philosophy of Religion-Other Humanist Philosophies -Russia and Marxian Humanism-Freud''s View of Religion-Historic Forms of HumanismPart Two: NATURE-The Cosmic Variables-Order in a Creative Universe -Indeterminism in Psychology and Ethics-Mind and Matter-Mind and Body: Organic Sympathy-Russell on Causality-Santayana on Matter-Mead and Alexander on Time-Logical Positivism and the Method of Philosophy -Croce, Heidegger, and Hartmann-Conclusion: The Historic Role of Humanism""This is a book that will be eagerly read by all those who are looking for a way forward out of the perplexities which have overtaken religion in our time."" -Christian Century

One of the most comprehensive, entertaining studies of bird vocalisations available. It offers a global survey of modes of singing, encompassing more than 5,000 species of singing birds, with special analyses of nearly 200 species with highly developed songs.

Bringing back Anselm's "Ontological Argument" as a major problem of modern philosophical analysis, this work argues that generations of philosophers have read Anselm superficially and have failed to see that Anselm presented two forms of the Argument, the second involving a conceptual breakthrough.

This work presents Hartshorne's rehabilitation of Anselm's "Ontological Argument", recast in neoclassical form as "the Modal Proof", along with applications of Hartshorne's method to a variety of issues in contemporary metaphysical and religious thinking.

For 23 years, philosophers Charles Hartshorne and Edgar Sheffield Brightman carried out an intensive correspondence. This volume presents their letters, along with material that follows their lives and interactions after 1945, when Brightman's ill-health prevented him from corresponding.

Because of the emphasis he places on the reality of change and becoming in his metaphysics (which regards God as the chief exemplification of metaphysical principles), the term 6 "process" has likewise been used to describe his notion of God.